Funding search · EIN 473522162 · Grantmaking charity · Washington, DC

Windward Fund

$393.6M
in grants paid: 1,072
grants: 723
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$8.3M
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Champaign, IL · 2024
Environmental programs
$7.8M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$5.0M
Carbon Mapper · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$3.9M
Hourglass Climate · Montclair, NJ · 2024
Environmental programs
$3.4M
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$3.4M
The Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$3.0M
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.8M
Frontier Climate Management Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.3M
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.3M
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.2M
Mighty Earth · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$2.0M
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.4M
Meridian Institute · Dillon, CO · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$1.3M
Rewiring America · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.3M
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.2M
Houston in Action Network · Houston, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.2M
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.1M
The Regents of University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.1M
International Sustainable Energy Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.1M
We Are Down Home · Greensboro, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.1M
Healthy Gulf · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
The Nature Conservancy · Chester, NJ · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Cascade Climate · Somerville, MA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy · Oakland, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
The Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
The Global Foodbanking Network · Chicago, IL · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Sixteen Thirty Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$1.0M
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$992,000
Natural Resource Governance Institute · New York, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$975,300
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$900,000
Southern Vision Alliance · Durham, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$800,000
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$800,000
The Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$750,000
The Center for Energy Education · Roanoke Rapids, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$750,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$700,000
Food for Climate League · Evanston, IL · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$700,000
Friends of the Earth · Washington, DC · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$700,000
Greener By Default · Chicago, IL · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$691,857
Lumen Bioscience · Seattle, WA · 2024
Environmental programs
$690,000
Georgia Stand Up · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$676,500
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Environmental programs
$673,250
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2024
Environmental programs
$650,000
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$600,800
State Democracy Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$600,000
Amalgamated Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$600,000
Mercy for Animals · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$546,353
San Bernardino County Fire Protection District · San Bernardino, CA · 2024
Public safety, disaster preparedness and relief
$535,000
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund · Austin, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$530,000
Blueprint North Carolina · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$505,000
Rural Arizona Engagement · Coolidge, AZ · 2024
Environmental programs
$500,000
The Capital Good Fund · Providence, RI · 2024
Environmental programs
$500,000
Freedmen Green Bank and Trust · Mableton, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$500,000
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$500,000
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$500,000
Roanoke Economic Development · Aulander, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$500,000
Physicians Association for Nutrition USA · Grand Rapids, MI · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition
$500,000
Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$500,000
Mdc · Durham, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$499,209
International Food Policy Research Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Environmental programs
$475,000
North Carolina Clean Energy Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$470,000
Movement Advancement Project · Boulder, CO · 2024
Environmental programs
$465,000
Black Sustainability · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$450,000
Georgia Alliance Education Fund · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$450,000
Texas Southern University Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$450,000
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$450,000
Progeorgia State Table · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$437,250
Reflective · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$408,000
North Carolina Asian Americans Together · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$401,100
West Street Recovery · Houston, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$400,000
Washington State Rural Development Council · Des Moines, WA · 2024
Environmental programs
$400,000
State of Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity · Lansing, MI · 2024
Environmental programs
$385,000
Crude Accountability · Linden, VA · 2024
Environmental programs
$375,000
Alaska Public Interest Research Group · Anchorage, AK · 2024
Environmental programs
$370,000
Beneficial Electrification League · Arlington, VA · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,835
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,000
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective · Durham, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,000
Electoral Collective · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,000
Alliance for Affordable Energy · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,000
Southeast Climate & Energy Network · Sunrise, FL · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,000
Urban Tilth · Richmond, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,000
Clean Energy Fund of Texas · Houston, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$350,000
A Better Chance a Better Community · Enfield, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$330,000
Galeo Lcdf · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$325,000
Black Male Voter Project Ef · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$320,000
Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2024
Environmental programs
$310,000
Grist Magazine · Seattle, WA · 2024
Environmental programs
$303,380
North Carolina Black Alliance · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$301,750
Broad Community Connections · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,500
Business Capacity Development Alliance · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Fair Shot Texas · Austin, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Pennsylvania Stands Up Institute · Lancaster, PA · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas · Floresville, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Thrive New Orleans · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Hbcu Green Fund · Forest Park, GA · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Feed the Second Line · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Nafasi Fund · Huntsville, AL · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully · Houston, TX · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
Southern Coalition for Social Justice · Durham, NC · 2024
Environmental programs
$300,000
The Pollination Project Foundation · Brevard, NC · 2024
Agriculture, food, nutrition

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Unlike private foundations, grantmaking charities and associations often run formal grant programs with real application cycles — check their website for current opportunities. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.